(RNS) — Any phenomenon as big as Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, which has deluged cities along its path with crowds of devoted teenage “Swifties,” is likely to stir concerns about spiriting away the nation’s youth.Then again, Swift has primed the fears with her performance of “Willow,” a song that drew backlash in 2020 when its video depicted cloaked figures dancing in the woods. Swift fueled the controversy at the time, saying that the song “sounds like casting a spell to make someone fall in love with you.”
“People are losing their souls and can’t even see it,” commented a YouTube user in March after a video appeared online showing similar choreography in a Swift concert.
The reaction is an increasingly common one in social media, where anti-witchcraft and other anti-occult videos have sprung up, often with pastors calling for witch burnings or drownings.
In February 2022, a video of Tennessee pastor Greg Locke threatening to expose six alleged witches in his own congregation went viral. In December, in an internet forum for body builders, someone called for the return of “witch burnings” in order to “instill order to this hellscape.” The thread was titled, “The kardashians are modern a witch coven.”
Offline, a pastor invited to give the invocation in the Ohio House of Representatives late last year told legislators they were in a battle against witches, who he called “the rulers of darkness.”
The trend has disturbed those in the modern witchcraft community who consider themselves at risk of reprisal.
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“People are losing their souls and can’t even see it,” commented a YouTube user in March after a video appeared online showing similar choreography in a Swift concert.
The reaction is an increasingly common one in social media, where anti-witchcraft and other anti-occult videos have sprung up, often with pastors calling for witch burnings or drownings.
In February 2022, a video of Tennessee pastor Greg Locke threatening to expose six alleged witches in his own congregation went viral. In December, in an internet forum for body builders, someone called for the return of “witch burnings” in order to “instill order to this hellscape.” The thread was titled, “The kardashians are modern a witch coven.”
Offline, a pastor invited to give the invocation in the Ohio House of Representatives late last year told legislators they were in a battle against witches, who he called “the rulers of darkness.”
The trend has disturbed those in the modern witchcraft community who consider themselves at risk of reprisal.
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